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Many organizations work with a paucity of funds and a lack of proper infrastructure. But their battles against social injustice refuse to die down. If you wish to join their fight, you can contribute in more ways than one.

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Episode 05 : Criminalization Of Politics

The Concerned for Working Children

Since 1975, Bangalore-based The Concerned for Working Children has worked on various issues related to children's rights including child labour and education, with a special emphasis on children's right to self–determination. It has encouraged children to participate in local governance by setting up children's panchayats and gram sabhas. In 2010, it launched the 'Me & My VOTE are NOT for SALE' campaign in Karnataka to generate awareness on panchayat elections. Today, the campaign has been launched nationally as well.

Resource and Support Centre for Development

Freeing people from exploitative and deprived situations—that’s the task Mumbai-based Resource and Support Centre for Development (RSCD) set out for itself in 1994. A key area of the organization’s work has been women’s participation in politics and governance.

Episode 04 : Kings Every Day

Society for Rural, Urban and Tribal Initiative (SRUTI)

Through its fellowship programmes, SRUTI aims to identify and invest in dynamic individuals who work towards the ideals of a more equitable society. Another aim is to empower oppressed and vulnerable communities to access equality and justice, and to find solutions to problems.

Episode 03 : Don't Waste Your Garbage

Kashtakari Panchayat

In India, waste picking has long been a stigmatized profession. In Pune, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) has helped waste pickers fight for their rights and work for the betterment of their community. It all began in 1993 with a convention of 800 waste pickers, which provided them a platform to air their grievances and concerns.

Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Since 1975, Mumbai-based Stree Mukti Sanghatana has helped thousands of women improve their lives and escape poverty. Parisar Vikas, one of the NGO’s key programmes, aims to recycle waste and create zero-waste cities. It works closely with self-employed women waste pickers whom it has empowered to resist exploitation.

Episode 01 : Fighting Rape

Jan Sahas Social Development Society

In rural Madhya Pradesh, a group of people have been working tirelessly to fight for and restore the rights of the marginalized. Working since 2002, Jan Sahas Social Development Society has fought on behalf of manual scavengers and bonded labourers, victims of atrocities, women and children from Dalit and tribal communities, women forced into commercial sex work, and survivors of rape and sexual assault.

Anusandhan Trust

Set up in 1991 in Mumbai, Anusandhan Trust was established with the intention of democratically managing institutions that would: (i) undertake research on health and allied themes, (ii) provide education and training, and (iii) advocate the well-being of the disadvantaged and the poor.